YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers

Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by wffurr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:16PM (#26730578)

Come back to me when you've come home from a long workday to deal with the results of telling a small child "no" yet again. It's not pretty, and you gotta save your "nos" for what matters.

Setting up some parent to believe that letting their kid explore YouTube Kids on their own is a good idea through your marketing and then having the vast majority of the content on the service be low quality dreck with no redeeming value is setting up parents for failure.

YouTube Kids either needs to curate a lot better (as if) or back off on their marketing claims.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by jumpman_miya on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:39PM (#26733074)

I do it everyday man. I had to block a kids channel called FGTV. The dad who runs the channel is super inappropriate and I didn't want my son to learn from him. Do you think my 5 year old understood that?

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by dasKrokodil on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:01AM (#26736960)

>It's not pretty, and you gotta save your "nos" for what matters.

Yes, but I'd argue that this matters.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by wffurr on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:30AM (#26737497)

Sure but you don’t even need to use a “no” once you realize that YT Kids is hot garbage and make it not even an option anymore.

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